On 23/07/14 04:51, Rajib Bandopadhyay wrote:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: geany-plugin-scope : Depends: geany-plugins-common (= 1.24+dfsg-2) but 0.21.1.dfsg-4 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
This indicates that the geany-plugin-scope package in Knoppix needs to be updated to take account of the updated geany-plugins-common. I don’t really know how Knoppix derives its packages from Debian but sometimes this used to happen to me when I used testing when pacakges depending on one another were not transitioned from unstable at the same time.
So, this is a problem at Knoppix’s end, there isn’t much the Geany developers can do about it.
In terms of checking for ‘breakage’ potential, you can check the ‘Depends’ line for each package using your favourite APT tool and compare it with the version of the package you want to install.
I don’t know why you consider my helping you ‘posturing’. I tend to be quite grateful for anyone offering me help with my computer problems online. As for condescendment, I found your response to my initial post to have quite that air about it.
I hope this helps anyway.
James